MATT FRACTION and MICHAEL CHABON appear on Saturday, January 31st from 1:30 – 4:00 PM to celebrate and sign the release of the comic book CASANOVA ACEDIA #1 at the Escapist Comic Bookstore. This issue begins the newest story arc of Fraction’s CASANOVA series, a story of a hedonistic thief turned kind-of spy as he navigates the incredibly complex and stunningly psychedelic parallel world of interdimensional global espionage. Back-up story by Pulitzer Prize winning fan of the series, Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay).

Author Event
Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, Summerland and more. Telegraph Avenue is a large-scale novel that brilliantly captures the nuances of race, commerce and class.

Special Instructions
Please present your original Barnes & Noble receipt (or BN.COM receipt) of Telegraph Avenue to receive a wristband for entry into this event. Wristbands will be given out beginning at 10:00 am Monday, September 16. Please call store for additional details: 412.462.5743.

Proceeds from the live panel benefit 826Valencia, the non-profit tutoring program founded by Dave Eggers.

The Nerdist Writers Panel series is an informal chat with professional writers about the process and business of writing. Covering TV, film, comic books, music, novels, and any other kind of writing about which you’d care to hear.

Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh) returns to the Booksmith on Wednesday October 3, 2012 at 6:00pm with his long-awaited new novel. In Telegraph Avenue, he explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland families—one black, one white—through the world of pop culture.

A standby line will be forming at 5:30pm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre (290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA) in the case that there are unclaimed tickets. Unclaimed tickets will go for sale at 5:55pm. They are $5 each and we will only accept cash sales at that point.

The book signing, which will take place at approximately 7pm at the Booksmith (279 Harvard St., Brookline) is open to all.

Author Michael Chabon appears in conversation with Adam Savage at the Herbst Theatre on Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 7:30 pm.

Press Release:

An “immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), Michael Chabon is celebrated for his remarkable ability to transport his readers. His first book, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, began as his thesis project at UC Irvine and became a coming-of-age novel about sexual identity. Published when he was just 25, the novel was a New York Times bestseller and catapulted Chabon into literary stardom. Chabon’s other novels include Wonder Boys, which was made into a critically-acclaimed film featuring Michael Douglas; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer-Prize; and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. His most recent non-fiction work, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, was published in 2009. Chabon’s forthcoming novel, Telegraph Avenue, is the story of two intertwined Oakland, California, families, one black and one white. It is an exploration of friendship, race, and secret histories.

Adam Savage is an industrial special effects designer, actor and co-host of The Discovery Channel series Mythbusters. His acting resume includes early work as voices for Sesame Street characters created by his father. Savage has also taught advance model making at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. He has previously interviewed Michael Lewis, Chef David Chang and actor/musician Fred Armisen for City Arts & Lectures.

About this Author
Although his novels and short stories have varied in setting — from the 1940s New York of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay to the contemporary Pittsburgh of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh — all of Michael Chabon s witty and understated books feature memorable, deftly-drawn characters trying to find their place in the world.

Michael Chabon’s lectures are an intriguing combination of performance and presentation. At Elon, he will share a tale of his childhood love and adult appreciation for one of America’s darkest writers. Admission: $12 or Elon ID. Tickets available February 10. Sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum and General Studies.

Acclaimed columnist Jon Carroll will host an evening in conversation with the literary power house married couple, Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Chabon and New York Times best-selling author Ayelet Waldman. Chabon, author of novels including and The Yiddish Policemen’s UnionWonder Boys received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 for his internationally celebrated novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. His newest book, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son (release date October 6, 2009) is a collection of slyly interlinked essays based on personal reflections, regrets, and reexaminations, and is his first major work of nonfiction. Ayelet Waldman is the author of The New York Times bestseller, Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities and Occasional Moments of Grace. A film based on Waldman’s novel, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits starring Natalie Portman recently premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Chabon and Waldman will talk about the tough choices they, and other parents, face today in this lively and humorous candid conversation.